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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

By Jake Meador

If the American church is dying it’s because we deserve it.

May 26th, 2016|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Monasteries, Protestantism, and the Joy of Indifference

May 25th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn’t a solution.

May 17th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

“Trials are Precious”

May 6th, 2016|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Reviewing “Disrupted” by Dan Lyons

April 28th, 2016|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Housekeeping News

April 26th, 2016|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Religious Extremism and Religious Liberty

April 25th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Hope, History, and the American Church After Obergefell

April 22nd, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

3 Lessons from “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”

April 20th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Purity, Ecclesiology, and the Benedict Option

April 4th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Boycotts and the End of Neighborliness

March 28th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Davenant House, Christian Community, and the Work of Study Centers

March 22nd, 2016|24 min read

By Jake Meador

“The Seer” Gets Wendell Berry Exactly Right.

March 18th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

An Interview with Laura Dunn, Director of “The Seer”

March 17th, 2016|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Tolkien's Holy Fools

March 14th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

The Redundancy of House of Cards

March 9th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Of Jayber Crow and Donald Trump

March 7th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

The Battle for the Bible and a “Literal” Hermeneutic

February 25th, 2016|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Social Conservatives and Donald Trump

February 18th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Who says memorialism isn’t “sacramental”?

February 10th, 2016|6 min read